Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.
For at a certain point in time even the greatest architecture ceases to be completely architecture and becomes partially landscape. Sometimes the wheel at last turns full circles; the pyramids are now wholly landscape, Stonehenge but faintly architecture. from the essay What should we preserve? in The Future of the Past
While we revel in the passion of the ‘moment’ braving the whirlpool of time, a flow of vibrations may surprise us and reveal unsuspected power in our inner self, giving us muscle and confidence. ( Swim or sink)
Something deep in human make up needs and longs for a taste of eternity–a momentary release from the relentless pace of time.
Even the wealthiest man cannot buy more minutes to put into each hour. -Duke Leto Atreides
How did it get so late so soon? It’s night before it’s afternoon. December is here before it’s June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?
O the joy of my spirit–it is uncaged–it darts like lightning!It is not enough to have this globe or a certain time,I will have thousands of globes and all time.
Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
It was a never-ending, soul-sucking saga trying to live two lives — one online and one in the real world. The former was like a picturesque garden, and the latter more like a desert waste; none could escape from either.
If you don’t know what’s worth spending your time, ask yourself, if you were to die in five years, what would you do?
Tell me, he said, What is this thing about time? Why is it better to be late than early? People are always saying, we must wait, we must wait. what are they waiting for?Well […] I guess people wait in order to make sure of what they feel.And when you have waited—-has it made you sure?
Some people are like wheelbarrows; useful only when pushed, and very easily upset. The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.
I wrestled Jordan Burroughs two times – Jordan Burroughs had a hell of a time trying to take me down. I stopped his double leg numerous times. And he also, probably, fractured my sternum – from me trying to stop him.
Sometimes the things that are felt the most are expressed between two souls over the distance and over time…where no words abide. And others may speak freely, live with one another freely, express themselves freely– just like everyone else, but then there is you… you have no words for proof of reassurance, no tokens of professed love, but you have something. Something worth keeping.
Not every untraversed road is exceptional to tread on.Some are best left that way, unremembered by the passage of Time.
All of these memories, big and small, were equal in only one–but one very significant–way. They all belonged to the past, they were invisible matter, they could leave no trace or mark on the present. Only life in the moment could do that–only this second in the hour–only this one fraction of time that was gone before you could even complete the thought. It was all both that ephemeral, and that infinitely reliable.
Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.
The rhythm of relations of color and size makes the absolute appear in the relativity of time and space.
There is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost.
Es el tiempo tiempo, es el tiempo que no muere, soy yo el que muere sabiendo que existe el tiempo.
Time was a film run backward. Suns fled and ten million moons fled after them.
It was a time when the future could have been anything, been anywhere. It was so open that it could actually crush her.
I don’t mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I’ve saved all year.
You’ll have lived through heat waves by now, and you’ll know that they make time go utterly Dali clocks.
It has been raining here for ten years.I keep an accurate record of time and can state this with no fear of contradiction.
There’s plenty of time, says Janet comfortably.And that, Ruth muses, as she gets into her car, is certainly true. One thing you learn as an archaeologist: there’s always plenty of time.
Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.
Chronotropic Drugs:Drugs engineered to affect one’s sense of time. Chronodecelocotropic drugs have no short term effect but over time give one the impression that time feels longer. Chronoaccelocotropic drugs have the opposite effect.
In this American culture, I see mass confusion around what priorities should be. I sense that they do not exist or we have two foundational ones, like family and work. Life becomes a mess when we do not have the right priorities or hold them in the incorrect order.
No one ever said on their deathbed, ‘Gee, I wish I had spent more time alone with my computer’.
The frailty of everything revealed at last. Old and troubling issues resolved into nothingness and night. The last instance of a thing takes the class with it. Turns out the light and is gone. Look around you. Ever is a long time. But the boy knew what he knew. That ever is no time at all.
It is so important to get respect for what you do and at the same time give it.
We are preoccupied with time. If we could learn to love space as deeply as we are now obsessed with time, we might discover a new meaning in the phrase ‘to live like men.
I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
When you weren’t always worrying about how to pay for your life, you could actually take a beat to enjoy it.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn’t block traffic.
Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.
TimeHow I long for yesterday.How I appreciate today.How I look forward for tomorrow.Without you, There will not be me.Without you, There is no chance for me.Without you, There is no more hope for me.You have given me memories of the past.You have given me opportunities to live now.You have given me dreams to live for tomorrow.
I just want your voice aimed at me again. I want to absorb the direction of your eyes…
Science is constantly proved all the time. If we take something like any fiction, any holy book, and destroyed it, in a thousand years’ time, that wouldn’t come back just as it was. Whereas if we took every science book and every fact and destroyed them all, in a thousand years they’d all be back because all the same tests would be the same result.
I could tell you of occasionally, every eon, meeting a person, with whom I might stay for a billion years. But what of it? After a billion years there is nothing left to say, and you wander apart, uncaring in the end.
Grief … gives life a permanently provisional feeling. It doesn’t seem worth starting anything. I can’t settle down. I yawn, I fidget, I smoke too much. Up till this I always had too little time. Now there is nothing but time. Almost pure time, empty successiveness.
Sometimes, we forget that we are made of flesh, so everything ends like this sadness drowning in the river and watch around! Everything acts as nothing happened, even these birds who saw everything act as nothing happened; they just settled back in the trees.
When a bud opens up, Let her bloomAnd let her show you how She made it through the storm.
Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
A year seems like a lot of time now at this end – it isn’t. […] Don’t lose your sense of urgency on the other hand, on the other, don’t be too hard on yourself – or expect too much.
Stolen moments” create a feeling of enjoyment in our “intensive time” awareness. The glow and the intensity of those instants can guide us throughout a whole lifetime. They can expose a second or a third dimension of the daily events and shed an expounding light on all the little details we encounter. (Stolen moments )
Each day is just another yesterday for tomorrow doesn’t exist.
And she smiled. She relished the moment, the gift of her and Thurwar existing in the same time and space, no matter how briefly.
Time is the wisest of all things that are; for it brings everything to light.
We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
Time travel is impossible only for those, who have no idea that someone has already changed history on several occasions, intentionally or not.
My own agonies, which I once thought comic, have become more terrible with the passing of time.
Nothing is a bigger waste of time than regretting the past and worrying about the future.
Smart phones and the social media industry is essentially a giant machine for persuading you to make the wrong choices about what to do with your attention, and therefore with your finite life, by getting you to care about things you didn’t want to care about. And you are in far too little control over your attention to decide, as by fiat, that you’re not going to succumb to its temptations.